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Picking the Brains of Strangers Improves Efforts to Make Sense of Online Information
NEWSPeople who have already sifted through online information to make sense of a subject can help strangers facing similar tasks without ever ...
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Book Draws Lessons from Social Science to Guide Creation of Online Communities
NEWSOnline communities are among the most popular destinations on the Internet, but attempts to create social networking sites often meet with...
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CMU Researchers Use Foursquare Check-in Data to Create Dynamic View of Cities
NEWSThe millions of “check-ins” generated by foursquare, the location-based social networking site, can be used to create a dynami...
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Vibrating Steering Wheel Guides Drivers While Keeping Their Eyes on the Road
NEWSA vibrating steering wheel is an effective way to keep a driver’s eyes safely on the road by providing an additional means to convey...
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Computerworld Honors HCII’s MILLEE Project
NEWSThe Human-Computer Interaction Institute’s Mobile and Immersive Learning for Literacy in Emerging Economies, or MILLEE, project has ...
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Eric Paulos Receives First Cooper-Siegel Professorship
NEWSFaculty members in Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science (SCS) and College of Fine Arts (CFA) are the first recipi...
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Quarter of Tweets Not Worth Reading, HCII Researcher Reports
NEWSTwitter users choose the microblogs they follow, but that doesn’t mean they always like what they get. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon Univ...
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New iPad Programming Course Launched
NEWSDevices in hand, a group of students lucky enough to get into one of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute’s newest classes are already...
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Charles Geschke Endows HCII Directorship
NEWSCharles M. Geschke, co-founder of Adobe Systems Inc., and his wife, Nancy, have endowed the directorship of the Human-Computer Interaction...
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HCII Is Hiring Tenure-Track Faculty
NEWSThe Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University seeks faculty candidates with a strong track record in research, ou...
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Redesign the HCII Website! $1,300 in Prizes
NEWSWhat: Challenge to redesign the HCII websiteDue: February 15, 2012Prizes: $1,000 first prize and $300 second prizeThe Human-Computer Inter...
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New HCII Social Space Dedicated As the Kiesler-Kraut Commons
NEWSOn December 2, 2011 a group of appreciative students and colleagues gathered to dedicate the new HCII Social Space as the Kiesler-Kraut Co...